Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) January 7, 2008 — It was once a rarity in this country to find women in medical schools seeking to become physicians, and it was even more unusual to find women who actually practiced medicine after their medical-school training. Now the landscape appears to have changed dramatically. More than 50 percent of college students are female, as are almost 50 percent of the students entering medical school. While such changes have allowed the medical field to progress and become more inclusive in regards to gender, ethnicity, and culture, there are still inequities. Medical schools and workplaces are only now beginning to look at what is needed to address these inequities and bring about systematic changes to support the changing demographics of the doctors of the future.
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